Summer 2026
Fifth Estate #418
Follows Winter 2025
CONTENTS
WORKS REVIEWED
Cancer-Industrial Complex
Nafis Hasan
Trust Kids!
Ed. Carla Bergman
Red Scare
Clay Risen
Squat the City!
Norman Nawrocki
Black Surrealist: Ted Joans
Steven Belleto
A Clean Hell
Eric King
The Art of Resistance
Susan Simensky Bietila
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
Jeremy Varon
Ain’t It Fun?
Aaron Lange
Surrealism b Anti-fascism Anthology
Ed. Matthias Muhling
Crossing the Race Line
Alice Echols
Often in the Right Place
John Zerzan
Imagining Surrealist Revolution
Ron Sakolsky
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman
Deborah Heiligman
ESSAYS
Of Kropotkin & Lichen
Stephen Duplantier
Marius Mason Released
Panagioti Tsolka
No Mini-Lenins
László Molnárfi
Sensing Bodies
Deep Strawberry
What is Society
John Zerzan
PM Press: 20 Years In
Nick Mamatas
A Cuban Comrade Passes
Sylvie Kashdan
Dilbert vs. Mr. Block
Hank Kennedy
All’s Well with Jesse Welles
William R. Boyer
What We’re Up Against
Lang Gore
Santa Rosa’s Insides
Stephen Duplantier
Queer and Jewish in Prison
Max Reynard
Remembering the Spanish Revolution, 1936
1. Spain ’36, Fifth Estate #323, Summer, 1986 Imagine the United States split regionally into conservative-fascist and leftist popular front-anarchist zones. Civil war rages at the shifting boundary lines with half the country under the domination of an insurgent military right-wing junta determined to destroy the elected government and all individuals and organizations of the left. Then imagine that simultaneously, behind the lines in the popular front zone (say, most of the East and West coasts), there are widespread decentralized efforts to transform the society through economic and social collectivization in producers’ cooperatives, free schools, free health centers, neighborhood councils, local popular assemblies-the assumption of community self-responsibility through direct action from the bottom up. READ MORE
2. The Spanish Revolution, Pura & Federico Arcos, & the Fifth Estate: How two Spanish exiles made a revolution real to us and our readers, Fifth Estate #395, Winter 2016 The ideas and the practices of solidarity and mutual aid learned from the Spanish anarchists who lived through that moment taught people at the Fifth Estate and many others a lot that shaped who we are now. Knowing people like Federico and Pura Arcos, both veterans of the Spanish struggle who lived in Windsor, Ontario across the river from Detroit, helped younger anarchists think of an anti-authoritarian revolution of everyday life as a real possibility. READ MORE
Remembering the Spanish Revolution, 1936
1. Spain ’36, Fifth Estate #323, Summer, 1986 Imagine the United States split regionally into conservative-fascist and leftist popular front-anarchist zones. Civil war rages at the shifting boundary lines with half the country under the domination of an insurgent military right-wing junta determined to destroy the elected government and all individuals and organizations of the left. Then imagine that simultaneously, behind the lines in the popular front zone (say, most of the East and West coasts), there are widespread decentralized efforts to transform the society through economic and social collectivization in producers’ cooperatives, free schools, free health centers, neighborhood councils, local popular assemblies-the assumption of community self-responsibility through direct action from the bottom up. READ MORE
2. The Spanish Revolution, Pura & Federico Arcos, & the Fifth Estate: How two Spanish exiles made a revolution real to us and our readers, Fifth Estate #395, Winter 2016 The ideas and the practices of solidarity and mutual aid learned from the Spanish anarchists who lived through that moment taught people at the Fifth Estate and many others a lot that shaped who we are now. Knowing people like Federico and Pura Arcos, both veterans of the Spanish struggle who lived in Windsor, Ontario across the river from Detroit, helped younger anarchists think of an anti-authoritarian revolution of everyday life as a real possibility. READ MORE